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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (90985)	2/1/2000 11:50:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574306

Paul, <Re: "In Pentium area, moving form PC100 to 133 also means moving from BX chipset to inferior Via chipsets (memory access-wise)"> Today, that statement is correct. In a few months, it won't be. Oh. I think your argument used to be: "can I buy it today?" Actually, if you were in a market for an Intel based system today, you would be disappointed. You can buy a chip in a yesterday's package (Slot) and plug it into: a) yesterday's chipset (BX), yesterday's FSB, yesterday's memory PC100 b) sub-par chipset (VIA), today's FSB, mainstream memory PC133 c) overpriced questionable chipsets (820, 840), today's FSB (133), a joke of a memory (Rambus) - overpriced at that. d) modern packaging (FC-PGA) with nothing to stick it into. Don't you think it is inexcusable for Intel to be cought with only a low end chipset (810), without a mainstream chipset (a successor to BX) and a non-viable high end (820 and 840)? I think a company as large as Intel should have a Plan A, B, C and D. If a tiny VIA can make competitive chipset for Pentium, Athlon and Socket 7, wouldn't you expect Intel to do at least as well? For Intel, it's a good thing AMD is limited by sub-par (sub BX) quality chipsets at the moment, or the whole situation would be even more embarrassing. Joe